nuzul quran...

Today is Nuzul Quran n its a Public Holiday in Selangor. Its a good time to take stock of what we have achieved in this blessed month...May Allah swt continouslly guide and protect us in this temporal world...

For those that have been reading the Quran and know the significance of this very special month, Alhamdoolillah. One of the most special aspect of Ramadhan is the promise that Allah swt made that he will forgive all our sins ( except syirik ) this month if we fulfill our fasting obligations...yes, all of our sins-n Allah will certaintly carry out his promise.

For those who have the translation of the Quran read Surah33,verse35 to reinforce the characteristics of good muslims,and for those who wants to get closer to Allah swt, try the night prayers,insyaAllah,the feeling is very special and rewarding indeed...

For me...Its been anything but a holiday. My mother in law has been in hospital for the past month and the last few days her condition has taken the turn for worse, she is now in ICU at Serdang Hospital. She was transferred to Serdang only yesterday-before that she was admitted to SMC/SSC in Shah Alam for obvious reasons-dekat and expecting a better service,since she is very old 86+ and we first admitted her to do an ops since she had a fall which fractured her thigh bone. The operation was successful and she was in high spirits for about a week b4 it got worse and abt two weeks ago she had a minor stroke according to the doctors and she has been in and out of ICU there. But hospitals in Malaysia has to be a lot more sensitive-there is more to "medical needs" in a patients recuparation. In ICU you are allowed only about 4hours of visitation,that is to be by the bedside-this is very depressing for both patient and loved ones-when the patient wakes up,seeing her ownwill uplift her spirit but more often than not its the nurses,whose expression is more often than not " dont really care its just my job kinda of muka !!". further more last week when she was having difficulties ( we thot she was ready to go ) the nurses in SSC was very insensitive n the fact that 90% of them were non muslims didnt help. How many of us are prepared to face orang yang nazak and knows what to do...

...the other thing,private hospitals cost a bomb,up till today the hospitalisation has cost us/her RM50k. Thats when we decided that she has to be moved to Serdang. At SMC the ICU was RM300 per day than there is the visits by specialist etc...so for those not in Government service its better to get a good insurance coverage which includes hospitalisation plans for old age as well.

Im of the opinion that the Government should provide completely free medical services !~ Like a social obligation/function ( social state ) Hospitals/Medicine is now big business worldwide and when you mix social responsiblity with business-its dangerous. I know its costly and that we in Malaysia r so very fortunate to have an excellent medical infrastucture...but some sort of coverage must exist for all. We had to pay the ambulance services to our house COD ! RM2oo+ and later RM300 to take her to Serdang ! Its so cold n business like when u call the ambulance service,its like we are losing our humanity...

Theres a lot more i would like to say about our medical services in this country ( both positive and negative aspects ) but i would like to do some research to substantiate my claims later...but i would like to put on record that there were also very good doctors/nurses who have not forget that the human aspects is just as or more important than all the "medicines/expertise" in the world !!